band video - director's cut

When the single was released, we were instructed by the record company not to include any 'controversial' footage in the promo-video, as they feared MTV would not show it.

Their concern was not misfounded: even with the lovely, but rather safe video we ended-up with, the label struggled to promote it in the US, as many radio and tv stations had a problem with the 'kill the president' line, said it was too anti-american, and they'd sometimes just play the verses, but miss out the chorus - (que patifes!).

It is a privilege to be able to re-edit the video as I always envisaged it in my head.
This is my personal edit, featuring footage from Chile 1973 >